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Historian and author Beth Baron is the latest CUNY Distinguished Professor at The City College of New York. She is the 15 th current faculty member at CCNY to earn that distinction. “Professor Baron is an internationally renowned scholar whose research is of the highest caliber,” said Mary Driscoll, interim provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs. “She is hailed by other distinguished scholars in her field for her ability to develop and sustain a powerful argument for the place of women and gender in Middle East Studies.” “Professor Beth Baron has conducted groundbreaking

From the lab of City College of New York chemical engineer and Fulbright Scholar Teresa J. Bandosz comes a groundbreaking development with the potential to thwart chemical warfare agents: smart textiles with the ability to rapidly detect and neutralize nerve gas. The fabric consists of a cotton support modified with Cu-BTC MOF/oxidized graphitic carbon nitride composites. The latter were developed in the lab previously and tested as nerve agent detoxification media and colorimetric detectors. Combining Cu-BTC and g-C3N4-ox resulted in a nanocomposite (MOFgCNox) of heterogeneous porosity and

Naresh Devineni, assistant professor in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering and NOAA CREST, is one of 59 recipients nationwide of 2017 U.S. Department of Energy Early CAREER awards. He’ll receive a five-year $750,000 grant for his proposal “Multi-scale Modeling of Extreme Events and Impact Information,” selected by the DOE Office of Science’s Biological and Environmental Research Program. Devineni is the first City University of New York faculty to receive an Early CAREER Award from DOE since the honor was introduced eight years ago. The awards are based on peer review

The City College of New York’s casts of the Parthenon frieze, sometimes called the Elgin Marbles, are on display at the Graduate Center, CUNY. The casts were recently installed in the Graduate Center lobby and Mina Rees Library where they are visible to the public. The casts consist of 20 plus rectangular relief panels that were part of the Parthenon frieze; four metopes (square panels that were on the exterior of the Parthenon); a reclining figure of Dionysus; and a horse’s head from a pediment (the triangular roof). “The Elgin Marbles casts came to the U.S. during the nineteenth century

Genes for many may be widely associated with determining certain traits and characteristics. Now a study co-led by John H. Martin of The CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York is demonstrating that they could also influence neural motor skills. This could lead to new insights in the treatment of motor skills impairments such as Cerebral Palsy. Martin and his collaborators from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Yutaka Yoshida and Zirong Gu, found that the lost function of two genes prevent infant laboratory mice from developing motor skills as they mature into

The City College of New York is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features the school in the new 2018 edition of its college guide, "The Best 382 Colleges" (Penguin Random House/Princeton Review, $24.99, August 1, 2017). Only about 15% of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges and two colleges outside the U.S. are profiled in the book, which is one of The Princeton Review's most popular guides. Published annually since 1992, it has detailed profiles of the colleges with rating scores in eight

A new generation of manganese dioxide-zinc batteries with unprecedented cycle life and energy density is the latest innovation at The City College of New York-based CUNY Energy Institute. The discovery has made the common household battery suitable for large grid storage applications. City College Senior Research Associate Gautam G. Yadav and his team applied a new twist to the old chemistry behind batteries. The result is a battery that takes advantage of intercalation and complexation chemistry to make the cathodes rechargeable to a larger extent, greatly extending its life. “A new layered

While the charge and spin properties of electrons are widely utilized in modern day technologies such as transistors and memories, another aspect of the subatomic particle has long remained uncharted. This is the “valley” property which has potential for realizing a new class of technology termed “valleytronics” – similar to electronics (charge) and spintronics (spin). This property arises from the fact that the electrons in the crystal occupy different positions that are quantum mechanically distinct. Now City College of New York physicists led by Vinod Menon have demonstrated how to

The 91st ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium will take place on July 9-12 at The City College of New York. The conference is co-sponsored by the Grove School of Engineering and the Division of Science as well as 22 exhibitors and sponsors. The annual meeting of the American Chemical Society Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry will bring together students, faculty, developers and entrepreneurs seeking the latest developments and applications in colloids and surface science. The conference features 13 topical sessions from Colloidal Forces to Interactions to Rheology with over 500

Naajidah Correll, Bryan Guichardo and Nana Minder, from the Black Studies Program at The City College of New York, are 2017 Mellon Mays Fellows. The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program is the centerpiece of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s initiatives to increase diversity in the faculty ranks of institutions of higher learning. Fellows have demonstrated academic ability and an aspiration to pursue a doctoral degree in selected humanities, social sciences and physical sciences. The fellowship provides fellows with structured programming; faculty mentoring; support for research